Roots York

IMPORTANT UPDATE

It is with great regret that we have now decided to close both Roots York and The Black Swan at Oldstead due to the Coronavirus pandemic. We make this decision with a heavy heart. We are thankful for all the wonderful support we have received from our guests and our amazing team. Though we cannot know the future, we promise to be open again as soon as possible and continue to push the restaurants forward.

If you have a reservation with us, we will be contacting you as soon as possible with an update on the situation. Of course, we can provide you with a refund but we would be very grateful if you choose to rearrange your booking for later in the year and look forward to welcoming you to our restaurants again.

It looks like we will be spending the next few weeks somewhat isolated in Oldstead. We are determined to continue with all our spring plans for the farm and garden and to safeguard the future stream of produce for the kitchen.
At times like this, we all need something to look forward to, so we will be dreaming of celebrating the re-opening of our restaurants and hope that you will be there with us in better times.

Made In Oldstead Food Boxes

Made In Oldstead Food Boxes delivered to your door in the York, Oldstead & Harrogate areas along with instructions for reheating. Each food box includes two different 3-course meals with each meal serving two people.

Our Roots

We have roots in Oldstead where The Banks family have lived and farmed for generations. It’s where their first restaurant, the Michelin-starred Black Swan Oldstead is situated. The ingredients that we grow and forage there are the roots of our menu here in York and our passion to design and create is at the root of everything we do.

Tommy Banks

Chef, Tommy Banks’s talent is in itself truly remarkable. He began cooking at the families first restaurant, the Michelin-starred Black Swan Oldstead straight out of school. He was Britain’s youngest Michelin-starred chef in 2013 and a winner of BBC Two’s Great British Menu in both 2016 and 2017. He also regularly appears on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen and MasterChef. He has now grown from his roots in Oldstead to bring his ethos and produce into the city of York.

Our Menus

Our menus adopt a different style to reflect each of the growing groups as defined in Tommys cookbook, Roots. Tommy and his team work around these three groups; The Preservation Season, The Hunger Gap and The Time of Abundance. With these, the dishes change as the availability of ingredients come and go.

We never change the whole menu at once, instead, it evolves as the seasons change and various produce becomes available to us from the farm. View our sample menus here.